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Back in May I was interviewed by MacWorld magazine and they even sent a real photographer out to my studio to take my picture, which made me feel super fancy. I liked Leah Nash‘s picture in the article so much I had to get one to use as my For Reals headshot when I have to send one in for comic convention programs and general promotional stuff.

Here’s the one I chose!

In her description of this assignment, she wrote:

On Monday, April 1st, 2013 cartoonist Erika Moen poses for a portrait at her workspace in Periscope Studios, a collective of cartoonists, illustrators, writers, concept designers, graphic novelists, and storyboard artists based in downtown Portland, Oregon.

Leah really captured the spirit of my workspace–colorful and cluttered, with a million bits and bobs that are completely crucial to my process and exactly where they need to be on my desk and in my drawers.

EDIT July 25th: Oh dang, I totally missed this earlier, but Alison also posted a longer excerpt from out conversation! I talk much more in-depth about where OJST came from and the fucked up sex ed and general sexual violence I was raised with and why my comics are a reaction against that.

You like that author portrait I made just for them, up above?

Well if you like it so much why don’t you just marry itbuy it?
But the original art and get a print of the finished version fully colored and with the photo, both signed!

I’m so stoked I got to record a video with GladRags and profess my love for the Moon Cup and reusable menstrual products! I’ve been using their products for nearly two years and am so stoked to have them be an official affiliate of Oh Joy, Sex Toy (July 23rd I’ll have a comic review up of them!)

Aaaaaaand my lovely husband (and the other half of Oh Joy, Sex Toy) endorses GladRags’ reusable menstrual products too :D Here we have a conversation together about these products.

I’ve been listening to That Thing You Like podcast since they first started posting earlier this year, when they were talking about Strip Search. Brian and Chris have such a great charisma together that I quickly became a fan of the show even when they were talking about other subjects than that one show I was on.

Then I had the opportunity to meet these two delightful Canadian boys at VanCaf a couple months ago and they were even more charming in real life. Since then I’ve gotten to see them a couple more times in Seattle and Portland and have declared us to be Actual Friends.

I would say that I was delighted they invited me on their show except that they didn’t invite me, I just told them I wanted to be on it and they kindly obliged. So go give it a listen! I had a genuinely great time talking with them on That Thing You Like, Episode 17.

And! Final note!
Next week, June 18th, I will be in Seattle for Penny Arcade’s livestreaming of the Strip Search season finale episode! Unfortunately, it’s all sold out, but hey! It’ll be livestreamed so you can still watch from home :)

What’s This All About?

My name is Erika Moen and I'm a fulltime artist at Periscope Studio. This blog is a collection of my artwork (both completed and in progress), announcements about my upcoming events, and repository for my ramblings / photos of my cat.

Beware, here be boobs and general NSFW-ery intended for those over 18 years old.